Latin America Report

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Latin America Report episodes

January 28, 2020 How Venezuelan Exiles Helped Expose 'Perfect Example' Of Maduro Regime Corruption
Early last year, Bulgarian officials discovered almost $70 million had been transferred from Venezuela to a bank in their capital, Sofia.
9 min
January 28, 2020 How Venezuelan Exiles Helped Expose 'Perfect Example' Of Maduro Regime Corruption
Early last year, Bulgarian officials discovered almost $70 million had been transferred from Venezuela to a bank in their capital, Sofia.
5 min
January 20, 2020 Could El Salvador's Draconian Abortion Ban Become Part Of Florida's Debate?
Two months ago, Democratic state Rep. Cindy Polo of Miami Lakes visited a prison in El Salvador. Polo met an inmate named Berta Margarita Arana, a Salvadoran woman serving eight years for attempting an abortion.
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January 20, 2020 Could El Salvador's Draconian Abortion Ban Become Part Of Florida's Debate?
Two months ago, Democratic state Rep. Cindy Polo of Miami Lakes visited a prison in El Salvador. Polo met an inmate named Berta Margarita Arana, a Salvadoran woman serving eight years for attempting an abortion.
5 min
January 14, 2020 Ghost Flights, Terror Frights: Why Iran, Hezbollah 'Footprint' In Venezuela Matters
In 2012, the Presidents of Venezuela and Iran met at the Miraflores Palace in Caracas. The bromance between Hugo Chávez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad alarmed Washington, since Venezuela and Iran were (and still are) sworn enemies of the U.S. So Chávez had fun joking that Ahmadinejad had come to help him “fire large missiles” at America.
9 min
January 14, 2020 Ghost Flights, Terror Frights: Why Iran, Hezbollah 'Footprint' In Venezuela Matters
In 2012, the Presidents of Venezuela and Iran met at the Miraflores Palace in Caracas. The bromance between Hugo Chávez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad alarmed Washington, since Venezuela and Iran were (and still are) sworn enemies of the U.S. So Chávez had fun joking that Ahmadinejad had come to help him “fire large missiles” at America. That remark may have sounded merely mischievous back then. But not today. Not with the U.S. and Iran actually trading missile fire this month and raising fears of a
5 min
January 07, 2020 Haiti 10 Years After The Earthquake: Why So Little Recovery Progress In A Decade?
Port-au-Prince was a canyon of crushed concrete and horrified screams as Jean Samson Edouard ran panicked and barefoot through the capital’s Carrefour-Feuilles district.
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January 07, 2020 Haiti 10 Years After The Earthquake: Why So Little Recovery Progress In A Decade?
Port-au-Prince was a canyon of crushed concrete and horrified screams as Jean Samson Edouard ran panicked and barefoot through the capital’s Carrefour-Feuilles district. It was shortly before 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010 — a decade ago this Sunday. A magnitude-7.0 earthquake had just destroyed much of Haiti — and killed anywhere between 100,000 and 200,000 people, according to most estimates (although the Haitian government had put the toll as high as 300,000).
8 min
December 30, 2019 Latin America And The Caribbean 2019: From Fire In The Streets To Ire In The Skies
It's hard to wrap your arms around everything that happened 2019 in Latin America and the Caribbean. It's even harder to find any good news — from the violent political unrest that rocked capitals from La Paz to Port-au-Prince, to a record number of fires that ravaged the Amazon rainforest.
9 min
December 30, 2019 Latin America And The Caribbean 2019: From Fire In The Streets To Ire In The Skies
It's hard to wrap your arms around everything that happened 2019 in Latin America and the Caribbean. It's even harder to find any good news — from the violent political unrest that rocked capitals from La Paz to Port-au-Prince, to a record number of fires that ravaged the Amazon rainforest.
5 min

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In South Florida, Latin America and the Caribbean are a local story - and the Latin America Report, which was a weekly WLRN feature from 2013 to 2023, looked at how the two often intersected and…